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Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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307 points MBCook | 6 comments | 15 Nov 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source | bottom
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[15 Nov 24 21:30 UTC] No.42151332[source]▶
I remember some car collision data that showed that men were more likely to get into any collision and women were more likely to get into a fatal collision. A comment I read about the study suggested the conclusion that men take more risks while women take bigger risks.

It's interesting to think in that context about this. Could Tesla drivers be taking bigger risks because they think the car's software will save them from the negative consequences of their risky decisions? (As an extreme example, one such driver opted to drive in the back seat instead of the driver's seat. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-highway-patr...)

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1. sombrero_john ◴[15 Nov 24 21:35 UTC] No.42151395[source]▶
> A comment I read about the study suggested the conclusion that men take more risks while women take bigger risks.

Or women's weaker musculoskeletal systems provide less protection against blunt force trauma?

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2. roughly ◴[15 Nov 24 21:43 UTC] No.42151487[source]▶
Or, like medicine and a whole variety of other fields, “male” is assumed default and anyone who isn’t the default has worse outcomes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/business/car-safety-women...

3. mrguyorama ◴[15 Nov 24 21:47 UTC] No.42151535[source]▶
If you look into car safety testing and design, they haven't used "Woman sized" crash test dummies until very very recently.

Cars were less safe for women because they were not designed to be safe for women.

4. Andrew6rant ◴[16 Nov 24 03:06 UTC] No.42153793[source]▶
Guess what year the NHTSA started using female crash dummies?

2003, thirty years after they started using male crash dummies. And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs.

What year do you think they mandated a crash dummy that was actually based on the female body?

Just guess. I think you might be surprised that they haven't done this yet. It's in the works (see THOR-5F), but it's crazy it's taken so long.

Now guess when they first put the 2003 female crash dummy in the drivers seat for the frontal collision crash test. They still haven't!

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6. anonfordays ◴[16 Nov 24 17:33 UTC] No.42157625[source]▶
>And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs.

Lol. Lmao even: "According to a 2021 report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the average weight of women in the U.S. over the age of 20 was 170.8 pounds."

https://www.forbes.com/health/womens-health/average-weight-f...